2013-05-07

Looking To 'Double Up' at Darlington

In addition to the Advance below, please see the attached Team Report which contains a crew roster, statistics and notes for Kyle Busch and the No. 18 Doublemint Toyota Camry fielded by Joe Gibbs Racing.

 

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KYLE BUSCH

 

 

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (May 7, 2013) – Kyle Busch has proven he knows a thing or two about doubling up on a race weekend. 

 

So it might be appropriate that the driver of the No. 18 Doublemint® Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) will have the iconic Doublemint gum brand adorn his racecar as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to historic Darlington (S.C.) Raceway for Saturday night’s Bojangles Southern 500.

 

Busch has already recorded two Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series “doubles” thus far in 2013. Those Sprint Cup and Nationwide wins on the same weekends at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., in March, and Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth in April upped his total to eight career Sprint Cup-Nationwide doubles.

 

Las Vegas native Busch conquered Darlington – the “Track Too Tough To Tame” – in May 2008, scoring his first victory at the 1.33-mile, egg-shaped oval and earning the distinction of being the youngest Sprint Cup winner in the storied history of Darlington, at 23 years of age. While not on the same weekend, Busch also has one Nationwide Series win at Darlington, scoring that one in May 2011.

 

This weekend’s event will mark the first of four races in 2012 that Doublemint will serve as primary sponsor for Busch, as the iconic chewing gum brand’s mint paint scheme will also adorn Busch’s No. 18 Toyota at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta in June, Atlanta Motor Speedway in August, and the first race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., in September.

 

Busch would like nothing more than to kick off the Doublemint slate of races with a win as the brand nears its 100th anniversary next year. So as he wheels his No. 18 Doublemint® Toyota Camry around the Darlington oval this weekend, Busch will focus on “doubling up” for the ninth time in his career while at the same time doubling his win total at the always-challenging racetrack that’s also known as “The Lady in Black.”

 

 

KYLE BUSCH, Driver of the No. 18 Doublemint® Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing:

 

What are your thoughts heading back to Darlington this weekend?

 

“Going back to Darlington, it’s a place that’s really tough, really challenging. I won there the first year it was repaved, and it’s been really fast. Last couple of years there, we had a really good car. We ended up with a solid finish with our Doublemint Camry there last year and, after the three week stretch we’ve had, I hope we can bring home a solid finish this weekend. But, I’m looking forward to going back there and seeing what Darlington has got in store for us again. I’m hearing that the track color has changed a little bit more with another year for the surface to mature, so maybe the grip level is not going to be old Darlington, but something similar.”

 

What makes Darlington a track that is too tough to tame?

 

“It’s a very narrow and challenging racetrack, especially for the speeds that we carry around there, now. We’re looking forward to the challenge with our Doublemint Camry this weekend. You’ve really got to be able to get as close as you can to the wall in order to carry your momentum through the corners because you’ve got to make the straightaways as long as you can. The track is very narrow on entries and exits, so you’re always trying to round the place as much as you can. It’s very one-groovish. You can’t really run side-by-side there. Any time you get alongside somebody, you basically have to let them go. It’s a very big give-and-take-type track. It’s a lot harder to pass now, with the fresh asphalt, than it used to be. It’s really aero-sensitive now, to where it used to be more about mechanical grip and getting your car to handle well and handle over the bumps well and keep the tires on it. Now you’re restricted off the car in front of you and are trying to find some air, basically.”

 

What do drivers mean when they say you have to “race the track” at Darlington?

 

“You can’t really pass there. It’s so difficult. So you run your laps until you get to a pit stop and try to get your guys to have a good stop for you so you can jump a couple of guys. Pit stops become really important there, and track position and trying to stay up front.”

 

You have eight career Sprint Cup-Nationwide weekend sweeps, two of which have come this year. How much do you feel like the experience from the Nationwide Series race helps you the next day for the Sprint Cup race?

 

“The Nationwide Series certainly helps me for the Sprint Cup race the next day. I feel like it helps me, anyway, just being able to get that extra seat time, being able to get that feel of what the racetrack transitions like and what the car does throughout the run and everything, and where you have to move around to. I did a lot of things at Fontana and Texas the next day that I did in the Nationwide race. But people can say, ‘Oh, well, it’s just as easy to watch the race on TV and watch what the winner does.’ But I don’t really want to sit there for three hours and watch it. I’d rather be out there feeling everything and participating in it, and of course it’s always cool when you can win both races. But we’re trying to put everything together, and this year I feel like it’s a little bit better bonus for me to race Joe Gibbs Racing cars on Saturday as it is on Sunday.”

Being a former winner, what does it take to win at Darlington?

 

“I won the first year there with the new car and I think it was just because everyone was new to the car. I’m hoping that gives us an advantage with this new Gen-6 2013 Toyota Camry since we’ve been fast pretty much everywhere we’ve gone so far. In 2009, a lot of people got a lot smarter. And for us, we fell a little bit behind. You just have to bide your time, and I wasn’t very good at that in 2009, but much better the last three years or so. You’ve got to make sure you keep working on your car and be very patient and be there toward the end.”

 

 

KYLE BUSCH’S DARLINGTON SPRINT CUP SERIES PERFORMANCE PROFILE

Year

Date

Event

Start

Finish

Status/Laps

Laps Led

Earnings

2012

5/12

×Bojangles Southern 500

5

4

Running, 368/368

44

$178,123

2011

5/7

×Showtime Southern 500

14

11

Running, 370/370

78

$134,991

2010

5/8

Showtime Southern 500

39

7

Running, 367/367

29

$146,556

2009

5/9

Southern 500

14

34

Running, 303/367

2

$121,346

2008

5/10

Dodge Challenger 500

6

1

Running, 367/367

169

$313,700

2007

5/13

Dodge Avenger 500

36

37

Running, 338/367

0

$86,250

2006

5/13

Dodge Charger 500

29

7

Running, 367/367

1

$120,625

2005

5/7

×Dodge Charger 500

6

23

Running, 369/370

0

$84,400

× Race length extended due to green-white-checkered finish.

 

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Chiasson Impressive In Oxford Pro Late Models

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OXFORD, Maine – Gary Chiasson of Peru, Maine, finished second on an afternoon when he almost elected to start at the rear of the field.

Chiasson led most of the Oxford Championship Series 40-lap Pro Late Model feature Sunday afternoon at Oxford Plains Speedway before being moved out of the lead by another competitor, and he held on to finish second in just his second career start in the division.

 

Considering he almost opted to start at the rear of the field over concerns about how his car was handling, it turned out to be a pretty good day for Chiasson.

“The shocks aren't really right right now. They're not really doing what we want them to do, but it was a different set than what we had on there last week,” Chiasson said. “We were hoping for a Top-10 car, so we'll take second any day.”

Chiasson began his day by scoring a win from the pole in the first of two 12-lap qualifying races on the day.

“We've got to figure it out still, but we love (this division),” he said. “Luckily, everybody else was hung up in the back. We had a mishap last week, and if we hadn't had that, we probably would have started mid-pack and had a lot tougher time coming up through.”

The No. 71 Chevrolet is out of the Crazy Horse Racing stable, and the veteran driver said that the South Paris-based chassis builder did most of the work to convert the car from an ACT-legal Late Model to a Pro Late Model this offseason.

“It wasn't bad at all, Crazy Horse did everything for me mostly,” Chiasson said. “I didn't do much at all – we got the car back from Mitch, painted it, lettered it and two days later drove it over here.”

THERIAULT SEVENTH AT BEECH RIDGE: Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, finished seventh in the PASS North Series Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday.

It was the third straight Top-10 for the Brad Keselowski Racing development driver in PASS North Series competition, dating back to his victory at Oxford Plains last October.

“We have a couple more races up here in Maine. I think we'll have a shot at winning one of them,” Theriault said. “We're getting closer every time. We kind of ended with a bang last year, winning at Oxford, but it was definitely a wakeup call at the beginning of the year at Oxford (two weeks ago).

“We made some gains. It can only get better. I'm encouraged. We'll get better next time.”

HINKLEY, DAVIS STRONG AT DEVIL'S BOWL: New Hampshire driver Luke Hinkley finished a season-best seventh in the ACT Late Model Tour Spring Green 113 at Devil's Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vt., on Sunday.

Hinkley, who posted the fastest time in the morning practice session for one of the tour's signature events, qualified an impressive 10th in the 30-car field and ran inside the Top-10 throughout the afternoon.

His teammate, Todd Davis, was equally strong. Davis qualified fifth and finished 11th.

For both drivers, it marked their best starting and finishing positions of the 2013 season.

 

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'The Lady in Green' Once Again Meets 'The Lady in Black'

In addition to the Advance below, please see the attached Team Report which contains a crew roster, statistics and notes for Danica Patrick and the No. 10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet SS fielded by Stewart-Haas Racing.

 

For Immediate Release

 

Contact Joe Crowley

True Speed Communication

704-875-3388 x 805 or Joe.Crowley@TrueSpeedCommunication.com

www.TrueSpeedCommunication.com

Online Media Kit Available at: www.TrueSpeedMedia.com

 

DANICA PATRICK

 

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (May 7, 2013) – It’s been called the toughest of all tracks on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule. So much so that Darlington (S.C.) Raceway years ago was nicknamed “The Track Too Tough To Tame.”

 

Darlington is an egg-shaped oval 1.366 miles in length – the odd shape because the western portion of the oval needed a tighter radius on the turns as founder Harold Brasington promised Sherman Ramsey, who owned a farm next to the property, that he wouldn’t disturb his minnow pond when he built the track in 1949.

 

The odd shape also means that, to find the fast way around the track, drivers run against the outside walls in each turn, sometimes brushing up against the wall and thus earning what has affectionately become known as a “Darlington Stripe” on the right side of the car. And the black marks left on the walls by the tires rubbing up against them all race weekend have led to the track’s other nickname – “The Lady in Black.”

 

For the third time in her NASCAR career and second in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, “The Lady in Green,” Danica Patrick, driver of the green No.10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), will meet “The Lady in Black,” when she competes in Saturday night’s Southern 500 Sprint Cup race at Darlington.

 

Patrick made her NASCAR debut at Darlington last year in the Nationwide Series by starting 15th and finishing and impressive 12th. One night later, she made just her second Sprint Cup start ever and finished 31st.

 

Her weekend impressed several NASCAR observers as Darlington is known as a track that is tough on first-timers. But “The Lady in Green” completed 513 of 519 laps in her first weekend at “The Lady in Black,” and did so without being in an accident – also a tough feat for a rookie, much less a seasoned veteran.

 

Patrick returns this weekend hoping to improve on her Darlington resume and perhaps tame the track that is “Too Tough To Tame.”

 

DANICA PATRICK, Driver of the No. 10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing:

 

Are you more comfortable this year heading into Darlington than last year?

 

“Last year, I ran there in the (Sprint) Cup race and it was basically my first Cup race, really. I ran Daytona, but Darlington was like getting thrown into the deep end. That was the purpose of it, to get seat time so I’m not thinking or dreading going there this weekend worrying about what that’s going to look like for me and how it’s going to feel. I have an idea now of how it’s going to feel and what needs to be done.”

 

Talk about your experience at Darlington last year. 

 

“I had never seen Darlington until that race weekend. So that’s always a bit interesting when you go somewhere you’ve never been. But I accomplished all the things I wanted to accomplish. Things went good on the Nationwide side. On the Cup side, my goals were to be respectable out there. I think I held my own. And the other one was to finish, and both of those things happened. So, overall, it was a good night. I definitely got a feel for all the elements. Starts, restarts and pitting, and all that stuff. Just how to get runs on cars. What to do when the car feels a certain way. Which lines to take, and to accommodate for the car and how it feels.”

 

TONY GIBSON, Crew chief of the No. 10 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing:

 

Overall thoughts on Darlington?

 

“Hopefully, she remembers what she learned last year. It’s hard because we only race at Darlington once a year, so it’s hard to remember that far back, sometimes. The biggest thing with Darlington is to race the racetrack, not anybody else. That’s what we did last time. She stayed out of trouble because she raced the racetrack, so that’s what she’s got to do again. I think that’s what impressed me there last time is she didn’t get caught up in trying to race everyone. She raced the racetrack and took what the car gave her. Our goal is to go there and have a clean race and finish. Typically, if you can do that, you can finish 25th or better and that’s what we’re going to try to do.”

 

DANICA PATRICK’S DARLINGTON PERFORMANCE PROFILE

Year

Date

Track

Start

Finish

Status/Laps

Laps Led

Earnings

2012

5/12

× Southern 500 (NSCS)

38

31

Running, 362/368

0

$76,980

2012

5/11

×VFW Sport Clips 200 (NNS)

15

12

Running, 151/151

0

$18,193

× Race length extended due to green-white-checkered finish

 

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2013-05-06

ACT Point Standings Tighten

 

Attached Photo: HelliwellHoar.jpg - Defending ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr.(27NH) fights for the victory with eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar (37VT) at Devil's Bowl Speedway this past Sunday, May 5 at the Spring Green 113.  Helliwell earned the victory by .027 of a second.  (Photo Credit: Eric LaFleche)


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Waterbury, VT – After 113 laps (56.5 miles) of American Canadian Tour Championship Stock Car racing at West Haven, VT's Devil's Bowl Speedway on Sunday, the victory in the Spring Green 113 came down to a flip of the coin: a margin that gave reigning ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. a critical early-season win, and left ACT Point Leader Jimmy Hebert's advantage at just three points.

 

Helliwell's triumph over Brian Hoar on Sunday is the closest finish in ACT's history since the changeover to electronic scoring in 2010.  A difference of just .027 of a second separated the pair at the line, and Helliwell's victory not only pulled him back into title contention, but saved Hebert from losing the top spot to the eight-time Champion Hoar.

 

Hoar now sits just three points back from last year's Rookie of the Year, with Helliwell only 18 points out of the lead.  Tiverton, RI's Ray Parent continued to prove himself as a legitimate contender with another top five at Devil's Bowl, keeping him fourth overall and just 6 points away from Helliwell.

 

Two veterans, Brent Dragon and Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., used runs from deep in the field in the Spring Green 113 to jump into a tie for fifth place after coming into the event in 8th and 12th place in overall points respectively.  Rookie of the Year contender Bobby Therrien backed up his top five at Thunder Road with another top ten effort, moving up two spots to seventh.  Chip Grenier moved from 14th to crack the top ten in 8th, and Ben Lynch and Rowland Robinson, Jr. each bounced back from tough days at Devil's Bowl to hold on to top ten positions in a tie for ninth.

 

Claremont, NH's Luke Hinkley flexed his muscle at Devil's Bowl en route to a seventh-place finish after running up front all day, climbing the standings from nineteenth to eleventh.

 

The Tour will turn next to Airborne Speedway, the site of last year's epic showdown for the title, for a 100-lap event on Saturday, May 18.  It will be the fourth point-counting event of the year for the American Canadian Tour, and a precursor to the ACT Inaugural International 500 to be held on July 20/21 at the fast half-mile track.

 

For more information, head to www.acttour.com, call the ACT Office at (802) 244-6963, or email us at media@acttour.com

 

For social media updates, like us at www.facebook.com/ACTTour, or follow us atwww.twitter.com/ACTTour

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AUTODROME CHAUDIÈRE - JOURNÉE PRATIQUE BUDWEISER

                      

PRATIQUE DU 11 MAI                                                        


8H00    Ouverture des Puits

8H30   INSPECTION CLASSES LOCALES

10H00   PRATIQUES : POUR TOUTES LES CLASSES SE PRODUISANT À VALLÉE-JONCTION EN 2013

                                      HORAIRE SUR PLACE

12H00    PISTE FERMÉE

12H00    DÎNER : RESTAURANT DES PUITS …OUVERT

12H30    REPRISE DES PRATIQUES---(4H30) Piste fermée/Close the Track

15H25    FIN DES PRATIQUES

15H30    RENCONTRE PILOTES/ÉQUIPIERS/OFFICIELS ET AUTRES

16H30    FERMETURE DE LA PISTE

SUJET À CHANGEMENT SANS PRÉAVIS

 

Prix : POUR TOUS PUITS INCLUS : 10$---17 ANS ET MOINS GRAUIT AVEC CARTE

 

N.B. BONUS DE 10 POINTS POUR TOUTES LES VOITURES DES CLASSES KAMIKAZE, LIMITÉ ET SPORT COMPACTE QUI SE PRÉSENTENT À L'INSPECTION.

 

André Gagnon, Relationniste

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Twelfth Place for Tagliani in Brazil

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Sao Paolo, Brazil - May 5, 2013 - Tagliani and his Barracuda Racing team carried positives and gained useful points from the two-day "trial by fire" at the Itaipava Sao Paulo Indy 300.

The Canadian driver started the race in P15, following an action-packed Saturday that included two practice sessions and qualifying. The Barracuda Racing team tried a variety of setup changes throughout the weekend in their debut outing on the 11-turn, 2.536-mile, temporary street circuit.

 

An early full-course caution allowed Tagliani the opportunity to pit off sequence with the leaders, and cycle up to second place after the leaders made their first pit stops. 

Unfortunately, the track position was short lived as Tagliani pitted after a restart, when he believed light contact had punctured one of his Firestone Firehawk tires.  Falling all the way back to last place after making the unscheduled stop to change tires, he was able to fight back up to 12th place by the end of the race.

"The Barracuda Racing team made great improvements, considering we weren't here last year, and we didn't know the track from a car and setup perspective," said Tagliani. "So with a two-day weekend and a quick turnaround, I think we had a good car for the race. We had a good strategy and we were running up front.

"Then on the second restart, I got hit from the back. I came in to change a tire and then when we went back out we had to pound some fast laps to make it back up. The other yellow flag didn't come at the right time for us, so a bit of bad luck there. Hopefully our luck will come at the right time as we head to Indianapolis."

The racing world now focuses its attention on the Greatest Spectacle in Racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Barracuda Racing crew will look to repeat their 2011 win and Tagliani's historic pole position. Qualifications will take place on Saturday, May 18 and Sunday, May 19. The 97th running of the Indianapolis 500 will take place on Sunday, May 26 and will be broadcast live on ABC.

About Barracuda Racing
Barracuda Racing is operated by Bryan Herta Autosport (BHA). Founded by veteran driver Bryan Herta, and noted race engineer and team manager Steve Newey, Bryan Herta Autosport has been a race-winning team in Firestone Indy Lights competition since 2009 and won the 2011 Indianapolis 500 with driver Dan Wheldon in only its second IZOD IndyCar Series start. BHA currently fields entries in the IndyCar Series and Firestone Indy Lights with Curb - Agajanian. Since 2012, BHA has partnered with Bowen and Bowers Motorsports, Inc. (BBM). Based in Toronto, Ontario, BBM is the coming together of leading sports and entertainment property development professionals, Chris Bowers and David Bowen, along with the financial management experience of Trapeze Asset Management Inc. For more information, visit www.bryanhertaautosport.com.

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Protecting users, applications, and data for more than 150,000 organizations worldwide, Barracuda Networks has developed a global reputation as the go-to leader for powerful, easy-to-use, affordable IT solutions. The company's proven customer-centric business model focuses on delivering high-value, subscription-based IT solutions for security and storage. For additional information, please visit http://www.barracuda.com or follow us on Twitter: @barracuda.

 


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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion's Week Celebrates Five Years In Las Vegas

Postseason Awards Set For December 6 At Wynn Las Vegas

 

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 2, 2013) – NASCAR announced today that the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards – the annual culmination of Champion’s Week – will be held on Friday, Dec. 6 at Wynn Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nev., for the fifth consecutive year.

 

From 1981 until 2008, NASCAR held its year-ending premier series awards show in New York City. Starting in 2009, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards has been held in Las Vegas, a destination that has triggered an entertainment evolution for the fan-favorite show.

 

 

 

Last year’s show alone featured host Howie Mandel, Train, Phillip Phillips, Lifehouse with Natasha Bedingfield and Cirque du Soleil: The Beatles LOVE. Among other A-List entertainment acts who have performed since the move to Vegas include Reba, Kid Rock, Brooks and Dunn, David Gray, Rascal Flatts, Colbie Caillat, Martina McBride, Jersey Boys, Cirque du Soleil’s “Viva ELVIS” and Frank Caliendo.

 

“Every single week, NASCAR creates the big-event experience, so it’s fitting that our year-end celebration of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion takes place in a city built on major moments,” said Steve Phelps, NASCAR chief marketing officer. “Las Vegas has been home to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards for five years, and each year it grows bigger, better and more entertaining for our fans. Undoubtedly, this milestone Champion’s Week will continue – and heighten – that tradition.”

 

“Two of the world’s most recognizable brands, NASCAR and Las Vegas, have developed a strong and successful partnership that delivers unrivaled excitement to millions of loyal fans,” said Rossi Ralenkotter, president/CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. “We’re proud to celebrate this milestone as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards and its Champion’s Week return for the fifth year, proving that no destination matches the passion and energy of NASCAR like Las Vegas.”

 

A full lineup of events or activities during NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week will be announced at a later date.

 

The next NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race will be the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway on May 11 at 7:30 p.m. ET. It will air on FOX, FOX Deportes, Motor Racing Network Radio and SiriusXM Satellite Radio with additional coverage on NASCAR.com.

 

About NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States. NASCAR consists of three national series (the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series), four regional series, one local grassroots series, three international series and GRAND-AM Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series, both known for competition on road courses. Based in Daytona Beach, Fla., with offices in eight cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and Europe. For more information, visit www.nascar.com and follow NASCAR at www.facebook.com/NASCAR and Twitter: @NASCAR.

 

About the LVCVA

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is charged with marketing Southern Nevada as a tourism and convention destination worldwide, and also with operating the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center.  With more than 150,000 hotel rooms in Las Vegas alone and more than 10.7 million square feet of meeting and exhibit space citywide, the LVCVA mission centers on attracting ever-increasing numbers of leisure and business visitors to the area.

www.lvcva.com or www.LasVegas.com.

 

Contact:

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2013-05-05

ALEX GUENETTE RAPIDE LORS DES ESSAIS PRÉ-SAISON EN SÉRIE NASCAR CANADIAN TIRE

COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE – POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE

 

Le jeune Alex Guénette a annoncé ses couleurs lors des essais officiels tenus au Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, le circuit routier hyper rapide situé à l’est de Toronto et mieux connus sous son ancien nom, Mosport.

Montréal, Canada – Le 1 mai 2013. Alex connaissait déjà la piste, pour y avoir tourné l’automne passé à bord d’une voiture préparée par Dave Jacombs, son préparateur pour cette saison 2013. Alex a roulé vite, à quelques 3 dixièmes de seconde du tour le plus rapide de la journée. Car attention, les coqs de la série NASCAR Canadian Tire (NCaTS) tournaient eux aussi, et Alex leur en a certainement mis plein la vue.

 

 

Son préparateur, Dave Jacombs a aussi aimé ce qu’il a vu. « Nous apprenons encore comment communiquer, comment trouver les bons mots et exprimer l’intensité d’une caractéristique comme ‘’un peu’’ par rapport à ‘’beaucoup’’. Nous écoutions ses commentaires et y ajoutions nos observation afin d’améliorer la voiture à chaque sortie. » Et ça marchait, car les temps tombaient à chaque visite en piste, se retrouvant finalement dans les 1m 24sec, tout près du chrono le plus rapide de la journée.

 

Après une journée sans faute, Alex a bien apprécié l’expérience. « Je me sentais un peu rouillé après quatre mois sans tourner, mais le ‘’feeling’’ est revenu rapidement, alors que la voiture fonctionnait à merveille et que j’ai pu suivre avec mon pilotage les améliorations apportées par Mike Knott, mon nouveau chef d’équipe, que j’ai aussi fort apprécié. Ca va marcher notre affaire! J’ai bien hâte de revenir ici dans quelques semaines, pour une vraie course, où tout le monde y sera et l’intensité montera d’un gros cran. »

 

Toute l’équipe se retrouvera en piste pour la première ronde de la saison NCaTS, le 19 mai, encore une fois au Canadian Tire Motorsports Park.

 

Visitez Twitter (@alexgracing) et Facebook www.facebook.com/AGracing39 pour plus d’informations sur Alex.

 

Allez au  www.nascarhometracks.com pour découvrir la série NASCAR Canadian Tire.

 

Pour d’autres informations, entrez en contact avec Jacques Guénette, au jaco.guenette@gmail.com, ou Alex au 514 758-9200 ou à Alexrace9@live.com.

 

Photos libres de droits jointes à ce communiqué.

 

Informations additionnelles

 

GC Motorsports International

Cet organisme, sous la direction de Steve Meehan, aide à l’avancement de la carrière de jeunes pilotes canadiens.

 

Motos Illimitées

Fondée en 1993, Motos Illimitées vendait alors des motoneiges et accessoires sur une surface de 10 000 pi. ca. L’entreprise a grandi depuis, et vend aujourd’hui plusieurs marques de motoneiges, motos et autres véhicules récréatifs.

 

Vous y trouverez les gammes Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Arctic Cat, Polaris et Victory, en plus des vêtements et accessoires de mise, tout exposés sur plus de 50 000 pi. ca.

 

Facile à trouver sur le voie de service nord de l’autoroute 640 à Terrebonne, Motos Illimitées vous donne facilement accès aux sentiers, autant en hiver qu’en été.

 

Vous trouverez plus d’information à propos de Motos Illimitées au http://www.motosillimitees.com/en/index.spy.

 

 

DLGL

Fondée en 1984, DLGL offre des systèmes et services de paye et de gestion des ressources humaines pour la grande et la très grande entreprise.

 

DLGL a remporté plusieurs prix au fil des années. Entre autres, DLGL fait partie des 50 sociétés les mieux gérées au Canada, chaque année depuis 1999. Il s’agit d’un concours commandité par Deloitte, le Groupe Entreprises CIBC, le journal Les Affaires, et la Queen's School of Business. DLGL a aussi remporté le prix du meilleur employeur de l’année au Québec 12 fois depuis 1999, en plus d’y ajouter le Prix Panthéon 9 fois depuis 2005.

 

Visitez le http://www.dlgl.com/DLGL_main_en.asp pour obtenir plus d’information sur DLGL.

 

 

 

 

 


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